41Synonyms found for size

Word Origin & History

size c.1300, "an ordinance to fix the amount of a payment or tax," from O.Fr. sise, shortened form of assise "session, assessment, regulation, manner" (see assize), probably a misdivision of l'assise as la sise. The sense of "extent, amount, magnitude" (c.1400) is from the notion of regulating something by fixing the amount of it (weights, food portions, etc.). Specific sense of "set of dimensions of an article of clothing or shoe" is attested from 1591. Sizeable "fairly large" is recorded from 1613.

Example Sentences for size

The demonstration swelled to revolutionary size, to a large extent, because its organizers consciously eschewed politics.

The cost of installing water meters varies according to both the size of the building and the number of water lines involved.

Pollen began looking for genes, near these deletions, that could affect brain size.

When size creates externalities, do what you would do with any negative externality: tax it.

The meteorite that wiped out the dinosaurs might have been less than half the size of what previous models predicted.

Prize pumpkins have tripled in size in the past three decades.

People often judge a protest's success by the size of a crowd.

Multiply a city's rank by its population and the result will match the size of the biggest city.

Chemical reactors are shrinking to notebook and even credit card size.

Their effective population size according to this definition might be pretty close to zero.